All I can say is that it's depressingly common. You're shadowing a convoy about 10-12 km off and suddenly your time control goes to 8 orange. You hit C for crash dive (cheating, really), but it's already too late. Somehow an escort has found you through the blinding rain and gale force winds even though you're well out of visual range of the convoy even in moderate weather. Magically, too, the ship is always on a collision course with you before it even fires the first salvo.
Despite the rain, the gunnery crew is perfectly accurate, and before you can reach periscope depth every compartment is flooding. If you're lucky you can avoid being rammed, but you're still going to take depth charges at 15-20 meters depth. The only advantage is that with that much flooding, you'll reach a safe depth far faster than normal.
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